Press Release – Green Party The Green Party is challenging Trade Minister Tim Groser to explain to the public whether he supported cutting climate change out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). All the specific references to climate change and fossil fuel subsidies …
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Article – BusinessDesk Nov. 10 (BusinessDesk) – The foreign affairs, defence and trade select committee is likely to start public hearings on the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and associated National Interest Assessment soon after governments sign the accord, expected …
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Article – Robert Kelly Prime Minister John Key will travel to South East Asia next week to encourage commerce and security links with South-East Asian and Pacific nations. He will lead a trade delegation to Vietnam before visiting the East Asian Summit in Kuala Lumpur and the …
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Press Release – Keep Our Assets Canterbury Christchurch Asset Sales Will Be Major Issue In 2016 Local Body Election: Public Meeting Told
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Column – Judith Collins Although not all New Zealanders are rugby fans it is hard not to be proud of our wonderful All Blacks and their brilliant win at Twickenham in the early hours (NZ time) of 1 November. I had to watch despite my exams for my Health and Safety diploma …
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Press Release – Steel Construction New Zealand Labour on right track with procurement policy says steel industry Steel Construction New Zealand, the representative body for the countrys structural steel industry, has welcomed the Labour Partys government procurement policy announced today, …
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Speech – New Zealand Labour Party It is a pleasure to be back in Palmerston North, the city of my birth. It is true to say that my family left Palmy reasonably soon thereafter, but there is no truth to the rumour that as a 16 month old I went to my mother to request
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Press Release – Doctors for Healthy Trade The delayed publication of the final TPP text on Thursday has raised concerns amongst health experts that the victory Australia and New Zealand have claimed over the US demand to extend monopolies on biologic medicines could be undermined by ambiguities …
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Press Release – Tertiary Education Union The Tertiary Education Union will honour Professor Jane Kelsey and Dr Huirangi Waikerepuru with awards of excellence at its annual conference tomorrow evening.
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Press Release – Green Party It’s appalling that the environment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) does not explicitly cite climate change, the biggest threat to our global wellbeing, said the Green Party today.
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Press Release – The Nation Little says a Labour government wont bring in a capital gains tax in its first term. We wont introduce it in our first term, and we wont introduce any change that significant to the tax system, any material change to the tax system, …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Following release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) last night, President Obama has given the 90-day notice to Congress that is required before he can sign the agreement.
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